Studio portrait of QX16587 Private (Pte) Edward August Manteit, 2/26 Battalion of Goombungee, ...

Accession Number P09223.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of QX16587 Private (Pte) Edward August Manteit, 2/26 Battalion of Goombungee, Qld. He enlisted from Toowoomba on 21 January 1941. Pte Manteit died of illness as a Prisoner of War in Siam on 4 October 1943, aged 24. He is buried at the Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar. His brother QX16955 Pte Arthur James Manteit, 2/26 Battalion was killed in action in Malaya on 15 January 1942 and his uncle QX19544 Gordon Eric Stanberg, 2/26 Battalion died of illness as a Prisoner of War on 13 August 1943.